Autonomous VehiclesResearch Studio

Advancement in technology and innovative applications has led to the proliferation of unmanned vehicle research. Many application areas have emerged that require not only multiple vehicles, but collaboration between multiple vehicle types. The diversity and complexity of these applications present significant challenges to researchers and developers, such as increasing difficulty in setting up and maintaining the evolving and growing drone fleet, as well as the need for standardized validation and verification platform to facilitate development, evaluation and analysis. Quanser’s new Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio is the ideal solution for academics looking to build a multi-vehicle research program in a short amount of time.

QUANSER INNOVATION UNLEASHED FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLESAt the center of the Research studio are two autonomous vehicles for air and ground: the QDrone and QBot 2e. The successor of the QBall 2, the QDrone is a quadrotor air vehicle equipped with powerful on-board Intel® Aero Compute Board, multiple high resolution cameras and built-in WiFi capability. On the ground the QBot 2e is an innovative open-architecture autonomous ground robot, equipped with a wide range of built-in sensors and a vision system. Working individually or in a swarm, these are the ideal vehicles for your research applications.

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Localization cameras

QDroneImpact resistant carbon fiber frameExpandable I/O

Intel® RealSense™ RGB-D camera

Omnivision downward optical flow camera

Intel® Aero Compute Board

Adjustable camera and depth sensor

The Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio comes with everything you need to jump-start your research.

Additional I/O channels for customization

QBot 2e

Low-power on-board computer

with integrated WiFi2-wheel platform with built-in sensors

Ground Control Station

STUDIO ARCHITECTUREThe research studio software architecture is powered by QUARC™ for Simulink®, and is designed to provide key functionalities required for multi-vehicle research through a variety of customizable modules. Each module is powered by QUARC’s communication framework to be target independent. This enables researchers to build high-level applications and reconfigure low-level processes supported by prebuilt modules and libraries. Using these building blocks you can explore topics in advanced flight control, machine vision, SLAM, autonomy, and more.

QUARC’s modular software architecture allows researchers to build high-level applications and reconfigure low-level processes quickly and easily.

CommanderHigh-level local monitoring and control

Data Server Global localization

Mission ServerGlobal monitoring and supervision

VisualizerImage capture and processing

StabilizerHigh-speed low-level control

Information exchangeManual flight communication

Object tracking communication

Swarm communication

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Optitrack Flex 13 localization cameras 6 6 8 12

QDrone quadrotor 1 2 4 6

Includes: • High performance computer with Intel® Core i7 • Three monitors• USB flight controller joystick• High performance router• Ground camera• Safety net and protective floor tiles

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Minimum recommended room size (m) 4.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 4.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 6 x 6 x 3.5 7 x 7 x 3.5

QBot 2e ground robot - 1 2 4

QUARC™ Autonomous Vehicle licenses 1 3 6 10

Recommended workspace (m) 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 5 x 5 x 2 6 x 6 x 2

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